In a future ravaged by climate change, wildfires will strain resources. Bringing back every town will only put people in mortal danger once again.

Open source computing is coming to your pocket. MNT Research is going small for its next project. The MNT Pocket Reform has a seven-inch screen with a clamshell design that, when closed, will be less than five centimeters thick.

Nature Materials - Biohybrid microrobots consisting of nanoparticle-modified microalgae are constructed for active drug delivery in the lungs. In an acute bacterial pneumonia model, the microrobots...

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Managing our Son’s Type 1 Diabetes with Multiple Daily Injections and Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitor

Training the large neural networks behind many modern AI tools requires real computational might: OpenAI’s most advanced language model GPT-3 required a million billion billions of operations to train, and cost about US $5 million in compute time. Some researchers…

A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases - dosisod/refurb

One of the most significant themes in my practice is the leader whose team of direct reports are experiencing difficulties working together. Most of my clients are CEOs, and they face this challenge with their company's senior leadership team, but...

Dream of developing software at a prestigious tech company like Google or Facebook, but don't have a CS background? We got your back!

Over the years I’ve become pretty frustrated by the state of tech and engineering in general. One of the biggest issues we face in the industry is the lack of reusability in software. GitHub made a major revolutionary change for developers, enabling all of…

I feel like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland who is always short on time… Due to that, I may or may not be able to pack together a second Zen 4 part, that will depend on the launch coverage of it. Nevertheless, I would like to share an interesting overview…

Discrimination against sex work has become a flashpoint for advocates of freedom of expression and economic rights

Apple has reportedly rejected the price hike proposed by TSMC, and keep in mind that the iPhone maker accounts for a quarter of chip revenue

A tensegrity-based goalie cage with better visibility

Except me. As of one minute ago I confirmed what I noticed last Wednesday. According to the all seeing Google, on the entire world wide web there are but three Creative Commons licensed images of a…

The mundane interface between human and machine caused social anxiety in the late nineteenth century.